Journal of Oncological Sciences (JOS) is the official journal of Turkish Society of Medical Oncology. The journal is an international quarterly periodical published on independent, unbiased, double-blinded and peer-review principles. The language of publication is English.
JOS is published triannually (three issues per year), in April, August, and December.
With a large international editorial board of experts, JOS aims to advance clinically-relevant knowledge of cancer, and improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of malignant disease. It provides an integrated view of oncology across all disciplines. The emphasis will be on publishing high quality papers rapidly and freely available to researchers worldwide.
JOS is an international multidisciplinary oncology journal, which publishes high quality original research, reviews, short communications (as letters), case reports and editorial comments on basic and preclinical cancer research, translational oncology, clinical oncology including medical oncology, pediatric oncology, radiation oncology, surgical oncology, therapeutic radiology and cancer epidemiology and prevention.
The target readership includes academic members, specialists, residents, and general practitioners working in the fields of oncology, radiation oncology, nuclear medicine, and internal medicine.
The editorial and publication processes of the journal are conducted in accordance with the guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), the Council of Science Editors (CSE), the European Association of Science Editors (EASE), and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
The requirements for submission of manuscripts and detailed information about the evaluation process are available in the published journal and also as instruction to authors on the website (http://www.journalofoncology.org/).
Papers will be submitted in submission web site. Editorial office will rapidly review papers and those of insufficient quality will be returned to the author 3 weeks, while those with sufficient priority will be passed to external review.
The journal is indexed in the following databases:
Open Access
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Journal of Oncological Sciences’s Open Access Policy is based on the rules of Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). By “open access” to [peer-reviewed research literature], we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.
Journal of Oncological Sciences does not demand any subscription fee, publication fee or similar payment for access to electronic resources.
Creative Commons
A Creative Commons license is a public copyright license that provides free distribution of copyrighted works or studies. Authors use the CC license to transfer the right to use, share or modify their work to third parties.
This journal’s content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International License. Under this Open Access license, you as the author agree that anyone can copy, distribute or reuse the content of your article for non-commercial purposes for free as long as the author and original source are properly cited.
Permission required for use any published under CC BY-NC-ND license with commercial purposes (selling, etc.) to protect copyright owner and author rights). Republication and reproduction of images or tables in any published material should be done with proper citation of source providing author(s) name; article title; journal title; year (volume) and page of publication; copyright year of the article.
Material Disclaimer
Scientific and legal responsibilities pertaining to the papers belong to the authors. Contents of the manuscripts and accuracy of references are also the author’s responsibility. Turkish Society of Medical Oncology, the Editor, the Editorial Board or the publisher do not accept any responsibility for opinions expressed in articles.
Financial expenses of the journal are covered by Turkish Society of Medical Oncology.
Digital Archiving and Preservation Policy
Digital preservation is a set of processes and activities that ensure the retrieval and distribution of information now available in digital formats to guarantee long-term, perpetual access. The preservation policy includes the following measures:
Website Archiving
All of the electronic content (website, manuscript, etc.) is stored in three different sources. Content on a server is online and accessible to readers. A copy of the same content is preserved as a backup on other servers. Should a server fail, other resources can be brought online, and the website is expected to be available in 24-36 hours
Abstracting/Indexing Services
Our journal's Abstracting/Indexing services store essential information about articles. In addition, some of Journal of Oncological Sciences’ Abstracting/Indexing services archive metadata about the article and electronic versions of the articles. In this way, copies of articles are presented to the scientific community through these systems as an alternative to journals.
Author Self-Archiving Policy
Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their articles on personal and institutional websites after publication (while providing full bibliographic details and a link to the original publication).
